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The title song from Foxygen‘s debut album We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, gets a psychedelic and trippy visual from director William Doyle of Neighborhood Watch Films. Watch the video above or HERE on YouTube to see singer Sam France running around Calvary Cemetery in Queens summoning the spirits just as he does on stage.

That same stage energy ended the band’s summer tour a bit early when Sam had an accident at First Avenue in Minneapolis in July. Doctors confirmed he completely fractured his tibia and fibula and underwent reconstructive surgery.

However, they said they are confident he will be able to perform in time for Austin City Limits and Foxygen‘s October dates in New York City All fall tour dates preceding ACL have been cancelled. Read more to see those dates and the band’s performance of “Make It Known” at Pitchfork Music Festival this past summer below.Read the rest of this entry »

Newly signed Jagjaguwar artist, Angel Olsen, has just announced some new tour dates in September and October this year. Be sure to catch Angel at some festivals this summer including her current home town, Chicago, for Pitchfork, End Of The Road, Hopscotch.

Watch the “Tiniest Seed” and see her new dates below. Check out the rest of her tour dates HERE.

After just finishing two buzzed about performances at Wilco‘s Solid Sound Festival in Massachusetts and Firefly Music Festival in Delaware, the boys of Foxygen aren’t ready to hang up their touring hats just yet.

Starting with Forecastle on July 13th the band is hitting other big festivals inlcuding Pitchfork on July 21st, Pickathon in early August, and Austin City Limits in October with many more dates in between. Peep the full list of cities below with the new dates in bold.

The Besnard Lakes’ new album is out tomorrow, but you can get a jump start on listening. Pitchfork is streaming Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO in full as part of their Advance program. The stream comes complete with album artwork and lyrics. Head to P4K for the record.

“Lasek and Goreas aren’t mere songwriters who produce pop tunes; they are composers who create musical suites out of sweepingly melodic movements….Until in Excess is another Besnard Lakes’ album album that stubbornly demands to be absorbed all at once, from beginning to end.” – Pitchfork

Like what you hear? Go ahead and pre-order the album from SC Distribution, iTunes or Amazon. By the way, you can download the album immediately after ordering from SCD (yay!).